Federal Technology Spending Map

Where Federal Technology Money Is Being Spent

The Federal Technology Spending Map visualizes a sample of U.S. federal contract awards drawn from public USAspending.gov records across selected technology NAICS codes. In the current default view, the map shows 96 qualifying awards totaling $75.5B across 18 states and 13 awarding agencies, with an average award size of $786.1M. These figures reflect the active filter set — category, time period, and agency — and are not scoped to any CaptureIQ customer account.

Bubble size on the map reflects award concentration by state within the sample. Click a state to review agencies, contractors, category spend, and recent awards for that location.

Federal AI and Machine Learning Spending

AI and machine learning awards are identified when award descriptions include terms such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networks, or related language, with NAICS 541511/541512 as additional signals. Select the AI / ML filter to focus the map on machine-learning-related federal contracts.

Federal Cybersecurity Spending

Cybersecurity spending includes contracts whose descriptions reference cybersecurity, information security, zero trust, threat detection, or similar themes, with NAICS 541513 as a supporting signal. Use the Cybersecurity category filter to isolate security-related federal spend in the sample.

Federal Cloud Spending

Cloud contracts are classified from descriptions mentioning cloud computing, cloud services, SaaS, IaaS, cloud migration, or major cloud platforms, with NAICS 518210 providing a fallback. Cloud-classified awards in the current sample total $1.2B across 2 awards.

Federal Data and Analytics Spending

Data and analytics awards reference data platforms, analytics, business intelligence, ETL, data science, and related terms, with NAICS 541519 and 541690 as supporting codes. Data-classified awards in the current sample total $74.3B across 94 awards.

How to Use the Federal Spending Map

Start with the default five-year view to see broad federal technology spending patterns. Narrow the time window to the last twelve months or three years when you want a more recent picture. Category buttons isolate AI / ML, cybersecurity, cloud, or data themes. The agency dropdown lists awarding agencies present in the current sample — choose one to see how a specific department concentrates spend. Click any highlighted state to open a detail panel with top agencies, contractors, category breakdown, and trend lines calculated from award dates in the sample.

The recent awards list shows public federal fields only: agency, description, amount, category, location, contractor/recipient when published, award date, and award identifier. These are historical obligations, not open solicitations.

Federal Spending Map Methodology

Data is retrieved from USAspending.gov using federal contract award types and a technology NAICS slice (541511, 541512, 541519, 518210, 541513, 541690). Each query returns up to 100 awards sorted by award amount — a sample, not exhaustive market coverage. Categories are assigned using regular expressions on award descriptions with NAICS-based fallbacks. State totals aggregate place-of-performance fields. The map refreshes on a cached schedule; if USAspending is temporarily unavailable, the page serves the last successful snapshot.

For open federal opportunities rather than historical spend, see the Federal Opportunities directory, agency spending hubs, and Federal Opportunity Research resources. CaptureIQ customers use the same public federal sources inside a structured capture workflow — this map is a free public research view with no login required.